I thought I was done with this but I’m not. Time to have more of a play in R with Land registry data and the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL). You never know maps and networks might also be involved.
Category: Mapping
Shapefiles in R
I’ve posted before on this and I clearly didn’t know what I was doing. I still don’t really know what I’m doing but I now have some pretty pictures and that’s all anybody really wants. In this post I’m going to import a postcode shapefile from the OS, plot the postcodes in R, find the neighbours of each postcode and convert the data into a network graph. Github repository here.
Plotting shapefiles in R
After my last post on the ONS data structure this post is the first of a few on using that structure and some other public data, mostly UK government data, and mapping it using R. This first post is about getting shapefiles from various locations, loading them into R and plotting them.
ONS Data Structure
I have been looking through the ONS geographic data on their Geo Portal and there are acronyms and variables everywhere so I thought it best to understand what they all mean. Whenever I refer to the output areas and super output areas I’m referring to the ones as at the 2011 census in England and Wales.
Mapping UK Cities and Towns in Excel
Continuing my theme of recreating spreadsheets I’ve seen on Clearly and Simply I’ve had a go at making an Excel map of UK cities and towns that can be highlighted to find their combined population.